"Elon Musk has said again that artificial intelligence could be humanity’s greatestexistential threat, this time by starting a third world war."

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"Hashing out his thoughts in public, Musk clarified that he was not just concerned about the prospect of a world leader starting the war, but also of an overcautious AI deciding 'that a [preemptive] strike is [the] most probable path to victory'”.

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